New York State’s leading lobbying and grass-roots advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender New Yorkers and their families, along with other state and local organizations, highlight the variety of important ways that New York State already recognizes same-sex relationships and that allowing same-sex couples to marry furthers New York State’s practice of according equalit

Leading associations of psychologists, psychiatrists and behavioral scientists explain why ending the prohibition on marriage for same-sex couples is in the best interest of children being raised by these parents. The brief discusses empirical research which has consistently shown that lesbian and gay parents do not differ from heterosexuals in their parenting skills and their children do not show any deficits compared to children raised by heterosexual parents. Whitman, Osterman & Hanna LLP and Jenner & Block are counsel for amici.

Plaintiffs do not request that this Court create a new right, but instead that it fulfill its mandate to enforce existing rights to equality and liberty guaranteed by the New Jersey Constitution’s Article I, paragraph 1.